My very first attempt to write a poem using the 5-7-5 haiku format. So please be kind!
The poem itself describes the dichotomy of nature, its amazing beauty as well as its inherent cruelty.
In Memoriam– Totem ‘61 Our hearts grieve, dear brother an… Good sails will carry you forth to… Your counsel we shall miss but it’… Together, we’ll be again; we look…
For a life well lived, we mourn no… Though tears we shed to mark the e… And today, all of her loved ones;… To pledge never to let her memory… A virtuous woman, her worth far mo…
with age, we find the world becomes a softer, sweeter song the things that used to matter don’t feel urgent, don’t feel wron… we watch the younger crowd
The world now awakes From cold winter’s deep slumber Freeze and snow over Grey depressing skies are gone With joy we welcome the sun
Walls are built to keep the enemy… To protect the faithful who are wi… Still, outsiders welcome without a… And it matters not whatever their… For God hates the sin, never the…
A few frothy wavelets in the calm… Bouncing up and down its turquoise… An undulating metallic mirror Shimmering in the late afternoon h… But from miles away raven clouds d…
One of the darkest nights that’s e… Ominous clouds, obscuring every st… The new moon hides, it’s nowhere t… Flicker of light emerge from the s… A fisherman in a small outrigger,
His cellphone flashed “low battery… While he was driving to the city And he was overwhelmed with anxiet… For the night was cold and wintry… He hopes to find wherever he’s goi…
For our sins that He came to die The perfect noble sacrifice In Calvary He shed His blood And He paid the ultimate price Thus, by His death, we are all sa…
A Sonnet Just for Laughs A fine Thursday morn far as I can… No rain in the forecast, the sun i… ‘Tis warm, spring is in the air; a… So let’s celebrate! God is good n…
In a corner Of the desolate and foreboding gra… Lies a tomb with a remarkable marb… The epitaph Here lies a man. He got his just…
He sat by the window, lost in thou… Watching the sun fade away complet… Behind patches of cotton-ball clou… As the cool breeze whispered sweet… Green hills appeared ahead, miles…
O death! A thief you are in the d… Although you visit even in the sun… At times you come swiftly with fur… Mayhem, chaos and uproar; in a vio… Times when you’re unseen, or quick…
The afternoon clouds flew by until… Starlings by the thousands darkene… The air is still and heavy and sme… The rising crescent belied it was… He stands in the sidewalk alone, d…
Into a room I walked, no familiar… Strangers all, with worried preocc… Glumly they stared; fidgeters ano… Except for a couple immersed in th… An empty chair in the corner, ther…